Only Use a Prepaid Calling card that provides itemized records

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To obtain a Fiancee or Spousal visa you must prove an ongoing and genuine relationship. Telephone bills work great for this. But now many use prepaid calling cards without historys
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Prepaid Calling Cards: a great way to watch your budget and at
the
same time cheaply talk with your fiancee. These services provide you a
toll-free access phone number and a personal identification number
(PIN). To make a phone call, you dial the access number and then enter
the PIN. An automated voice will ask you to enter the phone number you
are calling, and tell you how much time you have left. You get AMAZING
cheap rates for your international long distance calls.

But BEWARE! when it is time to demonstrate to immigration you
have a
sincere genuine relationship most calling cards are not worth the
plastic they are printed on.

As expressed by the US consulate in Guangzhou China in their
recently updated Packet 4 instructions, (the info packet they provide
just before an interview), "Calling cards, without an itemized list of
calls made using the cards, will NOT be accepted."

My guess is, those consular officers were plain tired of the
frequent arguments they had with applicants, having to explain that a
pile of dead calling cards, or handful of calling card purchase
receipts DOESN'T PROVE ANYTHING. If there is no specific record that
the phones which were connected were yours AND your fiancees, then
there is NO record. There is NO proof.

In fact a
client of mine with a fiancee in Thailand, had known the gal for five
years, and had carefully retained every phone bill for all those years.
But he used a calling card too. The only thing that his detailed
records demonstrated, was that every day he called the access number of
his calling card service. There was no proof at all where the calling
card routed his call. It could have been to Thailand, could have been to his fiancee, but it could have also been to anywhere or anyone else.

Why are these calling cards not accepted as proof of contact?
Well,
a tricky person could buy a calling card, and claim he used it to call
"Ms X" when he really used it to call "Ms Y". Or he could buy cards and
resell them to friends, retaining the original purchase receipts. Dead
cards or receipts do not show how the cards were used.

Rejecting calling cards that do not provide itemized records,
is not
only a policy of the Guangzhou consulate. It is the policy throughout
the State Department. Guangzhou just had too many unpleasant scenes,
and was frustrated enough they decided to post the policy specifically
in their interview instructions.

What to do? Use a service that lets you keep detailed calling
records. There are plenty of cheap long distance calling services, and
some of them provide itemized usage records. Shop around.

I did. I checked out dozens of services from a
google search. And I
was AMAZED at what I found. Almost NOBODY wanted to provide a useful
call log. They gave bogus answers like "we can't do it because of
privacy issues". "Contact us a speak with an operator and she
will
tell you what was the number you just called". " Send a certified
letter requesting the information". "If we receive a subpoena
we will
provide the information". And best, "for $200 we will provide
you with
your last year's call re cords".

So I was surprised to find that the service I currently use
stands
out from the crowd because it provides this information. And this
information is necessary for proving you have been calling your fiancee
regularly. The service I use and recommend is called
LD-Peanuts offered by LDPost.

It is cheap, prepaid, you buy in chunks of $20, AND you get
access
to their website, where you can view the last 60 days of call history.
The history shows the number you called from, and the number you spoke
with, the date, time, and how long you spoke. What you should do is log
in every two months and print out a copy of the call history page and
save it for when you apply for your fiancee or spousal visa.

You pay online with a credit or debit card and it buys you a
ton of
time. Calls cost US to China 1.7 cents a minute, to
Philippines 16
cents a minute, to Thailand 1.8 cents a minute, to Vietnam 7.5 cents a
minute. There are no connection fees, and there are competitive cheap
rates for the rest of the world too. You can make calls from
any phone
by calling a local access number. And they have local access in most
countries. You can even give your fiancee the pin number and she can
call the local access number in her country and call you. And
EVERY
call made would be listed on the history page of your account. Just
regularly print out the history, and you have clear proof that you and
your fiancee or spouse talked regularly. More details
available at
Prepaid Phone Cards: Prepaid Long Distance with call logs.

clients went to visit his Fiancee in Morocco. He took his cell phone
with him. He ended up with about $2,000 in roaming charges. If he had
signed up for LD-Peanuts the same calls would have cost him less than
$100.